It is midnight in this new city It is hot and cold and dizzying Taken in by the beauty and its choking air My mind is playing tricks on me What are these little creatures Racing through my head Are they real or are they a figment Of […]
I run purposefully I write angrily I think heartily I rhyme sadly I sing fitfully I weed productively I laugh exuberantly I work hungrily I eat chaotically I drink jovially I walk curiously I mother awe-ingly I dream longingly, yet warily I am emotion In every execution
Does the light come from above or from within or is there no light at all in this mind and body alcove Lightness and being being is lightness and that can be freeing At the end there is night and darkness in this life’s bend But take solace […]
Come to me For while you are broken and bent My hands, though pained, seek to mend Come to me For while you are unsure and self-mock I hold steadily atop a thin blue rock Come to me For while you you bleed out I will catch your […]
I woke up at 5:10am, showered, got dressed and downed two cups of coffee. I got on the 6am train and made my way to my 7am appointment with a laboratory tests medical office. I rang the buzzer a total of ten times before I was let in […]
Have you ever rushed to the restroom at work to only forget to use it? Yes? No? Weird? Why yes, it is weird. But such is my life. I tend to wear high heels, with about 30 under my office desk, and I have a bit of a […]
Americans actually fear not having an opinion to give. Research has demonstrated that we will even provide opinions on fake subjects (such as our attitude towards completely fictitious drugs listed on a survey). We can’t stand to be without firmly held convictions on pretty much any subject, real […]
Singer Paula Cole asked “where have all the cowboys gone?”, disillusioned that things are not what they had seemed to be at first. Where is my Marlboro man? Where is his shiny gun? Where is my lonely ranger? Where have all the cowboys gone? Yippee yo, yippee yeah […]
As I was walking past a store in Rome, I came across a storefront that just made me giggle although no one else around me seemed to laugh as well. Granted I have a strange sense of humor. But really, no me else noticed the storefront window? Here […]
Dear Inconsiderate Powers That Be: After receiving what I consider to be substandard karmic customer service, I would like to escalate my complaint all the way up the powers-that-be management ladder. Have you ever had a Sunday morning where you got up with dread knowing full well that […]